Identification of a new Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C clone from Anhui province, China

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9508, 2006, Pages 419-423

  Shao, Zhujun ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Ren, Jun ^b   Liang, Xiaofeng ^a   Xu, Li ^a   Diao, Baowei ^a   Li, Machao ^a   Lu, Meijuan ^b   Ren, Hongyu ^a   Cui, Zhigang ^a   Zhu, Bingqing ^a   Dai, Zhenwei ^b   Zhang, Li ^a   Chen, Xia ^b   Kan, Biao ^a   Xu, Jianguo ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b Anhui Provincial Institute of Parasitic Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROPORTIN 1; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHINA; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SEROTYPING; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 31844442220     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68141-5     Document Type: Article

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